GenBank

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) primary open-access repository for annotated genetic sequences and biological metadata.

Managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), GenBank serves as the definitive global clearinghouse for DNA and RNA data. It functions as a core component of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC): sharing daily updates with partners in Japan (DDBJ) and Europe (ENA). The database currently archives over 250 million sequences (ranging from viral genomes to complex human loci) and provides essential tools like BLAST for sequence alignment. Researchers rely on its standardized accession numbers to cite and verify genetic findings in peer-reviewed literature.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/